Poet to give free reading at Cal Lutheran

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Jan. 25, 2017) Poet Angela Peñaredondo will read and discuss her work at California Lutheran University on Wednesday, Feb. 15.

The free Guest Writer Series event will begin at 4 p.m. in William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art on the Thousand Oaks campus.

Born in the Philippines, Peñaredondo now lives in Southern California. Her first full-length book, “All Things Lose Thousands of Times,” was published in 2016 and was the regional winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize. Its feminist-oriented poems investigate where fragments of the body’s memory, culture, gender and desire gather, then piece themselves together to form into shapes.

Peñaredondo also wrote the chapbook “Maroon.” Her work has appeared in Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, Drunken Boat, Four Way Review, Cream City Review, Southern Humanities Review and Berkeley Poetry Review.

She is a Voices of our Nations Art fellow and recipient of a University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, Gluck Program of the Arts Fellowship, Naropa University’s Zora Neal Hurston Award, Squaw Valley Writers Fellowship and Fishtrap Fellowship. She has received scholarships from Tin House, Split This Rock and Dzanc Books International Literary Program.

Peñaredondo earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from San Francisco State University and master’s degree in creative writing and writing for the performance arts from University of California, Riverside. She is an adjunct professor in the La Sierra University English Department.

Cal Lutheran’s English Department and William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art are sponsoring the event.

The gallery is located in William Rolland Stadium on the north side of Olsen Road near Mountclef Boulevard.

For more information, contact assistant professor Jacqueline Lyons at jlyons@callutheran.edu.